# Crouton > Crouton, a family of models by stealth, listed from OpenRouter. Indexed, not reviewed: facts and our own checks, no score or ranking. Crouton Alpha is a lightweight model built for scalable coding, agentic, and multimodal workflows. It's ideal for executing agentic sub-tasks… - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crouton - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crouton.md (~500 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crouton.min.md (~430 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crouton.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - DNS: dig +short TXT crouton.grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.. and .vs.. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-11-03 # Crouton > Indexed, not reviewed: facts from OpenRouter and our own checks. No score, grade or rank, and not in the rankings until the panel reviews it. How the index works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/indexed/ - Kind: model family, by stealth - Category: Model APIs & inference (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/inference.md) - Listed because: OpenRouter lists it, with prices from the providers that serve it. - What OpenRouter says: Crouton Alpha is a lightweight model built for scalable coding, agentic, and multimodal workflows. It's ideal for executing agentic sub-tasks, tool use, and document analysis in high-volume, repeated work. Developers... ## Models (1) | Model | OpenRouter id | Released | Context | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Supports | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Crouton Alpha | `stealth/crouton-alpha` | 2026-11 | 1.05M | free | free | tools, structured output, reasoning, audio, file, image, video | Prices and limits as OpenRouter lists them; a provider's own price can differ. - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crouton.json - Being indexed says nothing about quality, and nobody can pay for it. Ask for a review: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/#claiming --- Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp